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all the county officers Offices and also
provide ample room for all other
county needs. In addition TO this long-needed
Improvement, a new $I2. 900 echool-house is In
process of erection. It will be two-story, four
roomed brick building. The City Council have
ordered the erection Of city hall. which is to
be two-story brick structure, the lowertpart to
ment and the upper part for q hall and council
room The site for an artesian well has also
been permanently located and work will begin
at an carly day Handsome two and three
story brick buildings are going all over the
business center; a mammoth grain warehouse
is already building. near the Cairo. Vincennes
large fve-story all-roler mill. recently erected
and placed in splendid running order by old
firm Of millers, together with tho Little Giant
MILL which has recently been reftted out and
out with rolls. turns out daily several hundred
barrels of -four, and also buy large quantities OF
grain each day. The future of Marshall seems
very bright
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McGIynn,s Lost Opportunity

LONDON. July 15.-The Rome correspondent
of the Chronicle says that the Pope. in CONVEX
sation with an American bishop, yesterday, said
that Dr. McGlynn lost his best opportunity in
not going to Rome while Cardinal Gibbons
there, he would have seen that the church was
the supporter of the many against feudal laws.
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which are in good shape. In Chinese waters
the eu-of-war Wolf and Iltis. and in
Australian waters the cruising squadron, Bis
merck. Garcia, Olga and Sophia.
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Steamship News.

QUEENsTowN, July 14.-Arrived: Adriatic,
from New York
SOUTHAMPTON. July 14.-Arrived: Ems.
from New York for Bremen.
NEW YORK, July 14-Arrived: City of Rome.
from LIVERPOOL: State of Indiana, from Glas-
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Robert e. Cowan.

ST. LOUIS. Mo-, July 14.-Robert E. Cowan,
supreme keeper of records and seals Of the
knights of Pythies, died here to-day at his home.
few days ago he underwent surgical opera
tion for the removal of a tumor The burial
will take place at sunset Saturday. Several off,
GERS of the Supreme Lodge of the World will be
here and take charge of the funeral Mr.. Cowan
left wife and three children. His two sons oc-
cupy high offices in the knights OF Pythias. He
was born in Stanton, Va, in 1880. He repre-
sented Virginia in the secession convention and
sat in the Confederate Congress. He was elected
Judge OF the Equity Court in Kansas City after
the war He was a ROYAL Arch Mason and an
Odd-fellow of high standing.
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Serious Accidental Shooting.

Special to the INDIANAPOLIS Journal.
MoRRIsTowN, July 14.-While loading load
Of hay Benjamin Ramsey, young married man
who lives Eve miles southeast of here, was acct
denta.ly shot by hunter The ball entered his
head near tie corner of his eye, passing through.
He is still living. but it is thought he will die
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Freight Trains Wrecked.

BpeciA1 tc the IndIanapoIS JournaN.
KoKoMo, July 1.-Two freight trains, 80
and "a, one local Lake Erie s. Western and
the other Panhandle Though freight, both go
ing north were wrecked late this evening at
l'a .rfeld. five miles south Of this city. While
Easing that point the Panhandle went plow-
ing into the caboose of the train in front The
Panhandle engine slightly damaged and
the caboose of tho Lake Erie g. Western badly
demolished. Fortunately. no lives were lost
The o'clock passenger train was delayed in
this city several hours
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Casualties at South Bend.

Special to the INDIANAPOLIS Journal.
SOUTH BEND, July IA prostitute from
Grand Rapids, Mich, calling herself Jennie
Stoddard, was drowned in the river here last
night, while bathing with three other prostitutes
and their four male friends. The body was re-
covered this forenoon.
A brick-yard employee named John Wood was
crushed under bank of clay to-day. Life was
extinct when the body was recovered.
The Columbus journal., 1887-11-02
Pointers.

If Martin BlOedOrn knew why a num-
Der of men are supporting him he would
not want the Office Of sheriff.-COiumbus
Democrat.
II the people were wise they would not
jeOpardize their comfortable homes by
voting for a spendthrift to guard the
treasury.-One rrhO sees danger ahead.
Doodle, BOOdle,, Shouts the would
be democrat Simon, who was really the
Doodle schemer in the late democratic
convention. Dan, or the railroad zap
per who conducted the farce. Let the
people talk.-Eye Witness.
Can you vote the county money to the
banks Of Columbus for two years and
then from one to two per cent. a month
for the use of it? can you do this in JUS
tice to yourselves! If You vote for Bech-
er you do this.-DemOcT0f.
Blood and thunder! Have you heard
Simon's advice? Why, Simon, there are
lots Of men who are glad to pay two
per cent. a month, and Gus. is not treas
urer yet. How is that! Now Mr.. DEM
ocrat, where is the proper place for the
county funds, the banks of the county,
or Canada? Please inform your readers
in your next issue, or will the railroad
capper take charge OF the same, for his
own uses and benefit, and let the poor
farmer 20 of unheeded! No, no, the
The Columbus journal., 1887-11-02

ONE thing is sure either the people of
Platte county must elect a great deal bet
ter men to some of their offices, or they
must put a closer watch on them after
election. Employ the right kind of men
to do your county work, just the same as
you would for your own individual work.
Once we went home to our farm, and the
''boss" of the work there was drunken
than a boiled owl, and had neglected to
get the cattle in out of a severe snow storm
This had occurred several times before.
The fellow was good otherwise, but
he knew he was fatally defective in
this, and so he said-"You are a blamed
fool if you don't get somebody to take my
place" Johnny Brough's rule was an ex-
cellent one-a man who is in the habit
of getting drunk is not the proper person
to place in any Office.
The Columbus journal., 1887-11-02
NEBRASKA NOTES.

A little more independence and will
power on the part of electors is needed
IN Platte county.
The various branches of the +. +. 4
NJ. " roads are about all completed, and
soon trains will be running on all of
them.
10000 head of sheep from Oregon and
western Nebraska have recently arrived
at Fremont to be wintered and fed in
that vicinity.
A hurricane on the Baltic, reported
from Berlin last week, drove many ships
ashore between Rugen and Memel, and
damaged the coast Notifications.
The Burlington 4 Missouri have Just
finished sinking a well at Lincoln. On
a trial test the other day the boiler
bursted, blowing the fire-bOx over 100
feet in the air. Charley Comas was
killed, and two other labOrers scalded,
probably fatally.
Little Hedwig Horst, who has been
lowering between life and death for the
past three days, with membranous
Group, died Wednesday morning. Oct.
rs, 1887, at $40 o'clock. She was seven
years old last Monday Madison Chron-
icIe.
Captain ]. j. WOodin, an old resident
of COlfay county, while hitching up u
team of %brOnchOs, was knocked down
ami Iun over by them, breaking his leg
below the knee. He is over seventy
years old and it is doubtful whether he
ever fully RECEIVERS.
The cOrner stone of the soldiers and
sailors home was laid at Grand Island
on the Goth inst, with appropriate
ceremonies. The procession from the
city to the Home was two miles long.
Gov. Thayer, department commander
Russell, past commander VandervoOrt,
and cOmrade Allen, made good speeches
to an audience of 1000 people. The
corner stone weighs 1850 lbs.
Mrs. Fannie Daily of McCook, COM
mitted suicide by shooting herself
through the head. She was 10 years of
age and had been married about three
weeks. Her husband, Mr.. Daily, is a
fireman on the Il. & NJ. and
had been detailed that evening to go ON
extra run. No explanation is made
of the terrible deed, except what she
says in a letter to her husband, that
she did not think she was the proper
person to make him happy, and that in
taking her own life she died for him"
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A Very Thin Argument.

1t seems to be a fact that a democratic
saloon keeper offered to bet that kav-
anaugh would be Platte county's next
treasurer, %whereupOn an ardent repub-
lican who happens also to be a stock
holder in one of our banks, bluffed him
of. On this exceedingly thin founda-
ton the Democrat ZONES ont with a
scare head 1.-The Banks for Becher."
According to this new system of logic,
If a republican saloon keeper should
offer to bet that Becher would be our
next treasurer and an ardent democrat
who happened to be a stakeholder of a
bank in the city would bluff him down
by putting up 500 on Kavanaugh, then
of course, according to the improved
system of logic, not only that one bank
but all the banks in the city forsooth
and in the county would be for Kav-
anaugh. Fine logic! Wonderful intel
lect. The infants had better 60 to
school to Whately for a while.
The Columbus journal., 1887-11-02

TOWNSHIP, county and state officials
in Nebraska, all have difficult and some
times intricate official duties to perform,
all OF which are regulated by law and re-
quiring knowledge, judgment and abili-
ty beyond what many applicants for the
places possess; in all such cases the vot-
or is left to decide among those present
ed, who among the crowd is best quail
fed politically, socially, and by strength
Of knowledge Of duties, judgment, ETC.,
which involves al important duty on the
part OF every elector. This duty should
be used with care next Tuesday.
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Look to the Public Service.

In this, the last issue of the JOURNAL
before election, We beg of You as voters
OF Platte county TO very carefully can
vass the relative merits of the tickets
before you for your suffrage, and to give
an unbiased judgment in casting your
ballot. Where the party Of which You
are a member and with which you usual
ly act, has not presented a ticket salts
factory to the rank and file of the party,
(who are always expected to do the work
Of electingl let the part approved by
your best judgment have your endorse
ment, and that part disapproved by
your best judgments, have your rebuke.
So long as the present system of making
party nominations prevails, it is not a
very difficult matter for combinations of
bad men with a design upon the public
for their own individual ACKNOWLEDGEMENT,
to compass their own nomination, as
against better men who are not so SELF
seeking. This has been done, time and
again, and it has been done in Platte
county this fall; if not very severely re-
buked, it will continue to be attempted.
The JOURNAL believes that political par
ties are useful, but when the party me-
chine is RIM by cliques, rings and cor
rupt or designing men, without regard
to the good name Of the party, and when
no thought Of the interest of the public
except Is they are made to bleed to fill
their " individual pockets, then party
obligations, 30 far, at least as they have
been trampled upon, are not binding up
on honest, patriotic party adherents.
When men Of rare good ability, Of IL
reproachable character honest, faithful,
trustworthy-are, by party managers,
supplanted by those of meaner mould,
at the dictate Of self-seeking politicians,
the rank and file should administer a re-
buke that will be a warning light to all
future engineers Of Platte county poll
tics, of all parties, not to jeopardize par
ty existence by lowering the standard OF
party service done for the public at
large. Platte county taxpayers and
home-makers must have a man in zach
Official station known to our laws. Let
him be the best available to election.
Monopolies, corporations, syndicates,
cliques, rings and party bosses, place
their means and their work where they,
in their perverted selfishness, imagine it
will do them the most good. Do you
place yours where You know it will do
good for all.
The Columbus journal., 1887-11-02
Gus. Il. Rechpr.

The candidate for county treasurer,
was born at Pilsen. Austria, in 1915. In
1913, his father emigrated to st. Louis,
Mo-. at which place, in the Christian
Brothers Academy, Gus. received a o n
siderable portion of his education. In
1857, Mr.. Becher's father removed to
this city, Gus. following in 1859, in the
meantime going to school. For eight
years thereafter he was clerk in the
hardware store of Hurford & Bro. at
Omaha, where he made many friends.
After that he came to Columbus. and
for the succeeding four years was en-
gagged in the United States service,
under Major Frank North, with the
Pawnee Scouts. In II, he served as en-
rolling clerk in the senate. After his
return he started in his present bust
ness, in which he takes great pride, and
in which he has been fairly successful,
enjoying the confidence, and winning
the good will of every man with whom
he does business. The county's money
and the county ~treasurer's duties will
be safe in his hands.
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banks is he place the tax payer want,
to keep the money.
DEMOCRATIC FARMER
Query.

Whose beer was drunk at st. Bernard
on last Sabbath? Was it Becher's? Ask
st. Bernard folks. Michael Scherze can
Tell. As Ian was on the ground with bis
TWO grand marshals, Philip Hohl and
Jake Steffes, two solid farmers who have
a good bank count. Beer can't buy
st. Bernard this time. We've been sold
too often on this score.
GERMAN VOTER.
And SO We learn, at last, that Gus.
Becher is not a Dutchman- 50 says the
Columbus Democrat. Yes, Simon, Gus's
father was a big fool for not moving in
to Ireland awhile before Gus. was born
as Irish blood these days takes the cake;
the Boss is chuck full of such blood
there Is Il pile of fight in Irish blood. try
n Boss lick. ANOTHER BOLD PADDY.
Send out Your beer. boys. the farmers
ont here are alive To- business. Eat,
drink and be merry for tomorrow Samp-
son shall be laid aside. the weary need
rest. MERcy
The Columbus journal., 1887-11-02
They Think Ii. We Say It.-Sce2

From the Humphrey Independent.
Well get there by and by.-Gus. G.
Becher.
I'll see that RObisOn's graves kept
green.-J. W. Fuchs.
1 wonder what the Humphrey Demo
crdt meant by calling my old supporters
mean, low, degraded and ignorant in
dividuals?" John Stauffer.
Politics has no charms. School work
and the advancement of educational in
terests is my only ambitiOn.-L. J.
Cramer.
I wonder if the people OF Humphrey
don't realize by this time that I'm some
thing of a politician myself:-Joseph
Linabery.
The sun shines warm and bright, the
birds sing in the valleys, my sleep is
sweet and everything is serene and
lOvely.-M. G. BlOedOrn.
1 am afraid my name is Pants.-The
democratic candidate for sheriff, who is
attacked with cramps every time We
mention his name.
Is it the weather that is growing
colder, or is it a political paralysis that
chills my rOtund and handsome FORM
ID. c. kavanaugh.
We are going to elect the best and
most competent men, the republican
ticket. THE People.
The Columbus journal., 1887-11-02
DR.. +. ]. Schug.


The republican nominee for coroner,
wal born at Canal Dover, Tuscarawas
county, Ohio, July Is, 1854; in 1856 his
parents removed to Wyandott county,
Ohio, where his father still resides. In
the public schools of Upper Sandusky
the future doctor received such educa-
ton as he could derive from them, and
in 1874 he attended the Medical Uni
versity of Kentucky and in 1856 the
Columbus Medical College at Columbus,
Ohio, where he graduated Feb. q, rs.
Shortly afterwards he took charge Of
the Office of Dr.. r N. Mcconnell, one of
the principal surgeons of northern Ohio,
while the doctor was absent in Europe.
After spending quite a while travelling in
Europe taking advantage of every op-
portunity offered to more thoroughly
equip himself for his life work, the DR..
returned to America, and in the spring
of 1880 (having been here the previous
falD located in this city where he has
been ever since, most of the time in part
nership with Dr.. Martyr. DR.. Schug
has been surgeon (ranking as MAJOR of
the LIST Regiment Neb. Natl Guards ever
since its organization; also for a num-
Der Of years secretary of U. s. Pension
Examiners board. He is a gentleman in
every respect, as his conduct here has
shown; as a physician and surgeon he
is most thoroughly capable, attentive
and efficient and this would be, as it has
been, his record as coroner
The Columbus journal., 1887-11-02

serve two masters" They should choose
between the people and party manipu-
tors. The Argus has made its choice
and SO have tho other democratic pa
pers of the county. They have their
idea of democratic doctrine and we have
ours. We believe the late democratic
convention of this county showed about
as little respect for the fitness of men
for the Offices as it could. We are asham-
ed and greatly mortified that it is posi-
BILE for the democratic party OF Platte
county to be used as a tOol.-Piatte Gen.
ter ArOuS.
The Columbus journal., 1887-11-02

WM. LEEsE, Attorney General has
done a good thing for Nebraska by re-
fusing to accede to the request of the
State Board of transportation to con-
tinue the case against the Fremont, Elk
horn e. Missouri Valley r. r. Co. He
says that ever since the first rail was
laid in the state there have been ques-
tiOns of controversy between the roads
and the people and that at times the
discussions have been very bitter, and
now for the first time in the history of
the state we arrive at the point where
the question is about to be determined,
and the board of transportation, the
guardians of the rights of the state, in
t~erfere, and pass a resolution to cOntin-
he the case. We believe that the indie
pendent stand taken by the Attorney
General will be heartily approved by the
people.
The Columbus journal., 1887-11-02
To the yoters Of Platte County.

d. C. Kavanaugh, the democratic can
didate for treasurer, has been sheriff Of
Platte county for some time, and, az is
we'll known, not only to republicans, but
also to his party democratic friends
(who know anything whatever Of his
manner Of conducting himself and his
oficel he has been derelict in duty; he
has violated the Law, time and again; he
has been q disturber OF the peace, instead
of q conservator las he should have
been); he has been guilty, time and
again, OF such disturbances, as, with an
impartial administration Of the law, by
the officers of the law, would have made
him liable to fine and imprisonment.
We have not published details concern
ing these things and have never intended
to do 80, because some OF them are not
fit for publication and promiscuous
reading.
Mr.. Kavanaugh seems to be on dress
parade, 80 to speak, at certain times and
on certain occasions, but il any voter
has yet q single doubt OF what We say
let him inquire and satisfy himself from
other sources.
Mr.. Kavanaugh has shown by his
conduct Of the Office of sheriff, that he
is not possessed of that fealty to official
duty which should be the badge Of
honor with every man who aspires to
political preferment-
The most intense partisan that could
be imagined, cannot, knowing what Mr..
Kavanaugh has been as sheriff, justify a
vote for him as treasurer.
All the sophistry that is being used,
all the efforts being made for the cleo
ton of this man to n of the most
important Offices in the county should
not avail with fair-minded men who
have the public interests at stake.
Rebuke the men who are UNFOLDING
him as q model Of imitation in political
methods for the rising generation.
Show them that they cannot use you
for their W individual ends; show
them that you want men somewhat like
yourself for the discharge OF the duties
Of public Office; show them that you see
in the trail Of this mans upward career,
a gang of camp-followers that you will
have to spend more Of your hard-earned
money to watch and ward from the
public crib.
It is beginning to be we'll understood
that the ax-payers Of this county must
elect better men than this to Office, or
they must set q closer watch on them
after election.
Now is a very fit time to begin the
work, and get a good start.
A vote against Kavanaugh means a
vote against ring rule in party politics;
a vote for Kavansugh means that a
viOlator of law, and a disturber Of the
peace should be promoted. Don't cast
your ballot that way. Put in a free, I'M
trammeled ballot for law and order, for
public peace, for a decent regard to
public interests; don't give the opposite
your approval, sanction or c~ountenance
by voting for Kavanaugh.
The Columbus journal., 1887-11-02

The Lindsay Sentinel, an organ of the
Kevanaugh clique Of democrats, has
something to say to the JOURNAL, and
the Democrat of this place, another or
gan Of the Kavsnsugh clique,quotes the
Sentinel article, styling it "Weighty
Words of Wisdom" We have space to
notice only one or two features of the
article. First, the assertion that Henry
c. Carrig, If he had been nominated for
treasurer, would have received the same
scoring that is being &c generously &C
corded to D.. c. Kavanaugh." This is
not true, because Mr.. Carrig is a differ
ent style Of man, altogether. The Senti-
mel and the Democrat ought to have
shown better Judgment than to chal-
lenge public scrutiny Of Mr.. Kavan-
augh's record as an official. The jour
NAL does not deal in "chaff" OF any kind,
has always been slow to make accuse
tons against public officers knowing vel
that in the estimation Of the public they
are more sinned against that shining.
but to meet this challenge and settle
the matter, outside Of assertions by
newspapers, will make the following
PROPOSAL 10 KAvANAUaH's PARTIsANs.
II We prove, by the afidavits OF truth
ful democrats Of Platte county and by
the aiidavits OF truthful republicans Of
Platte county that d. C. Kavanau9h,
while holding the Office OF sheriff of
The Columbus journal., 1887-11-02
John II. Sacridpr,

The republican nominee for Clerk of the
District Court, was born in Duchess
county, New York, March Sd, 1889.
At the age of twelve he became a resi-
dent of Illinois, living first for a short
time in La Sale county, afterwards in
Henry county. He passed his youth
partly on a farm, at school and as a clerk
in a store.
In 1862, he joined Company ID of the
56th Regiment of Illinois Volunteers,
and served his country as a soldier,
faithfully and well, until March %. 1865.
In 1871, sixteen years ago, MI. Sac
rider came to Platte county, taking a
homestead under the government his
valor helped to save,-the hundred and
sixty acres in Monroe township that has
since been his home.
MI. Sacrider is a man of good judg-
ment. a scholarly, well-informed man
and an excellent penman. He will fill
the Office of Clerk of the District Court
with honor to himself and the county.
The Columbus journal., 1887-11-02

The uprising among the Crows is
universal, as they have not been at wal
with the whites for years. A report
comes from Fort KeOgh, Mont, that
Troop A, Seventh cavalry, and company
E, Fifth infantry, left the other morn
ing for Cheyenne agency. They took
thirty days ratiOns and 200 rounds Of
ammunition per lar Three companies
of the Fifth infantry are to follow them
Immediately for Custer station by rail
and thence by land to Fort Custer and
Crow agency. Swordbearer, is an ugly
buck, and the latest report from him
saws he has now 800 warriors with him.